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Tabernacles of clay : sexuality and gender in modern Mormonism / Taylor G. Petrey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469656243
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BX8643 .T334 2020
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Contents:
Sodom and Cumorah -- Politics and the patriarchal order -- Proclaiming the new heterosexual family -- The death and resurrection of "the homosexual."
Subject: "Taylor G. Petrey's... history takes a... step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender, sexual difference, and marriage. Drawing on deep archival research, Petrey situates LDS doctrines in gender theory and American religious history since World War II. His challenging conclusion is that Mormonism is conflicted between ontologies of gender essentialism and gender fluidity, illustrating a broader tension in the history of sexuality in modernity itself"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction BX8643.49 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1151408165

Includes bibliographies and index.

Pure marriage -- Sodom and Cumorah -- Politics and the patriarchal order -- Proclaiming the new heterosexual family -- The death and resurrection of "the homosexual."

"Taylor G. Petrey's... history takes a... step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender, sexual difference, and marriage. Drawing on deep archival research, Petrey situates LDS doctrines in gender theory and American religious history since World War II. His challenging conclusion is that Mormonism is conflicted between ontologies of gender essentialism and gender fluidity, illustrating a broader tension in the history of sexuality in modernity itself"--

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